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Village Bully
Thank you for Lenora Todaro's article "NYU: A Blot on the Village" [September 14]. Architecture forms our cities, and so our political and civil society. NYU's trustees should abandon architectural bullying, and insist that the unive...

on October 5, 1999

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If Allen Ginsberg were alive today, he probably would be busy writing anti-Giuliani polemics and thinking back to the day in 1957 when the courts unbanned his famous 'howl.' But he's dead, and his Levi's jacket, his meditation beads, his Medic-alert ...

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This Sunday, the mayor was on three morning network talk shows insisting that his war on the Brooklyn Museum was a "matter of principle." The proof of his apolitical highmindedness, declared Rudy Giuliani, was that he was pushing ahead despite a Dail...

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'Hide it in the filing cabinet and bury it in the file of monthly vehicle reports. Fuck him! He's not getting it; it's my plaque, and it belongs to me. . . . I'm not giving it up.' That outburst, attributed to a whistleblowing top cop in the troubled...

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Shit changes everything. Until two weeks ago "Sensation" seemed so over. The early reaction in the New York art world to the coming exhibition of Charles Saatchi's spunky but flabby collection of young British artists was blas: "Ten years late," "Ju...

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The art world has sabotaged itself throughout the culture wars, and it's happened again in the controversy whipped up around "Sensation" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. A week after the mayor threatened to cut off all city funding to the museum, the C...

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For the record: Charles Saatchi is not Rudolph Giuliani's campaign manager. The advertising mogul, who got Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister, seemed to be giving Giuliani's Senatorial bid a similar boost with a well-timed controversy by loanin...

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Here's a scene to gladden Rudy Giuliani's heart: As the curtain rises on an Off-Broadway show, the NYPD swoops down, arresting the cast, producer, house manager, and even the concessionaire. The company is hauled into night court, charged with "disor...

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This image isn't of an artwork from "Sensation," the "controversial" Brooklyn Museum show, although it could be. The stooped and hairy mannequins, with their ridged brows and full-body five o'clock shadow, might easily be by, say, Jake and Dinos Chap...

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As remarkable as anything he ever did on the ice, the unfailing graciousness and poise Wayne Gretzky has displayed over more than 30 years of immense fame may be the Great One's most amazing record of them all. From his start as an eight-year-old phe...

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Uni Watch, obsessing lately over football footwear, is struck by the following thought: If 1970s punt-
returning star Billy "White Shoes" Johnson were playing today, he'd need a new nickname, because virtually all NFL teams now wear white shoes.
Bla...

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The stats may have still counted, but the Mets sure didn't play the sudden death playoff game against the Reds like it was the last game of the regular season. During the last 14 days, the Black-and-Blue Boys rode a virtual Coney Island Cyclone from...

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"It's not the Virgin Mary. It's a painting." These were the words uttered almost in unison by a group of Brooklyn Museum guards as they stood in front of Chris Ofili's picture titled The Holy Virgin Mary (1996), the work that launched a thousand slur...

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I love butch girls. Girls with slick, shiny, barbershop haircuts, trimmed so short your fingertips can barely grip it. Girls with shirts that button the other way. Girls that swagger. Girls who have dicks made of flesh and silicone and latex and magi...

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Good-looking stranger moves to a small town, changing lives while harboring a secret past. Mumford and Boys Don't Crytwo hits at the recent Toronto Film Festivalare tales from the heartland, accounts of second chances taken and personal reinvention...

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It may seem out of context, but Mr. Beery's of Bethpage is stocked with voter-registration forms. That's because owner Steve Beery is angry about a new state law banning all-you-can-drink deals and limiting drink specials; it's set to go into effect ...

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That bastard Kevin in Oh Yeah, That's Why We Broke Up [Cover Feature, Sept. 8] is my long-term love of my life turned ex through and through. The moron would do just what Kevin did, really not take an interest in making sure we had fun together, invi...

on October 5, 1999

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I love butch girls. Girls with slick, shiny, barbershop haircuts, trimmed so short your fingertips can barely grip it. Girls with shirts that button the other way. Girls that swagger. Girls who have dicks made of flesh and silicone and latex and magi...